ECONOMY

Australia's scientific investments have reached a 30-year low. Experts fear the country will fall behind other nations in terms of R&D capabilities in the future.

Australia continues to be New Zealand's leading investor with assets worth $115 billion. The New Zealand dollar has fallen to a new low after the central bank expressed its concerns of a possible intervention.

A Paraguay bishop accused of shielding a paedophile priest has been sacked by the Vatican.

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At least three provinces in Canada now have patients inflicted with the rare enterovirus D68. These are in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario.

Vatican has done the unimaginable and impossible on Tuesday when it placed under house custody former Dominican Ambassador Josef Wesolowski over pedophilia charges. It was the first time the Vatican has ever executed an arrest in its ranks inside the city state.

Cases of Ebola infections in Liberia and Sierra Leone could reach millions as early as January 2015.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was informed of the U.S.- led airstrikes.

Roubini Global Economics warned on Monday that Australia's economy would slow down in 2015 due to the weaker Chinese economy and trimmer Australian federal budget. It would lead to growth of only 2 per cent, more interest rate cuts and a 20 per cent decline in the value of the Aussie currency.

U.S. airlines have been advised to treat all body fluids of sick passengers as infectious.

Classes finally resumed for British Columbia's half a million public school students.

The Vatican has vowed to simplify the process of getting annulments in the Roman Catholic Church.

Air Canada's new first checked bag policy rule will come into effect on Sept 18 to bookings and later, for travel on or after Nov 2.

A former NHS nurse has become the first volunteer from the U.K. to undertake the Ebola vaccine trial on humans.

Rare enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68) has reportedly entered Canadian shores.

Rise in sea levels could cost the Australian economy hundreds of billions of dollars. The Climate Council has released a report revealing the costs of infrastructure if no action is done to prevent future damages.

The UN needs U.S.$1 billion to contain the rampaging Ebola outbreak. Death toll has now reached 2,461.

B.C. public school teachers to vote on Thursday whether to ratify new deal or not.

Air France enters its second day strike by the pilots this Wednesday. Only 40% of scheduled flights will be operated.

Pope Francis could be an easy risk for the ISIS this weekend on his visit to Albania.

Venezuela once had a toilet paper shortage, which appears to have been addressed already. The shortage has shifted to other products, now to branded breast implants that the nation's female population obsessed with physical appearance, are now using made-in-China implants or even those that are of the wrong size.

The Ebola outbreak will last 12 - 18 months more.

Pilots of Air France will stage a work stoppage from Sept 15-22.

In what seemed to be a direct blow to strict Catholic doctrine of marriage before sex, Pope Francis married 20 couples on Sunday who have lived together and no less already had children. The papal wedding took place in no less than in St. Peter's Basilica.

Various unions in British Columbia have offered assistance to the 41,000-striking public school teachers of the B.C. Teachers Federation (BCTF) province by offering them $8 million in interest-free loans.

The number of people killed by the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa has reached 2,296, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, with the tally expected to still increase in the coming days.

Russia continued to adopt a strong stand against a definitive new round of economic sanctions to be imposed by the European Union. It has even warned that should the body push through with the new list, it will bar western airlines from its airspace effective immediately.

A popular Nigerian pastor and prophet has warned Catholics to pray for Pope Francis as he might get kidnapped soon.

The economy of Australia may be in the danger zone, according to a former chief economist of the federal government. China's property crisis has a direct link to Australia's economic performance.